Letter from Jail | Chet Baker, Lucca, Italy, 1960
When he was in Lucca, Chet Baker always stayed at the Hotel Universo, room 15 where, sitting on the windowsill, he would...
Jazz Moments
Peri/od/ical: Jazz Journal / Fifties and Sixties Covers
Jazz journal, Sidney Bechet, September 1956 Louis...
Encyclopedia of Jazz on Records | Compiled by Leonard Feather / Cover by Alex Steinweiss (1957)
Encyclopedia of Jazz on Records, covers by Alex Steinweiss, 1957 Alex Steinweiss was a graphic design artist known for inventing...
The Book and the Movie: Les Tricheurs / The Cheaters | Marcel Carné (1958)
"Listening to that?" said the woman, pointing with a smile to the radiogram. "That", said...
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Flick Review < Saluti e baci / La route du bonheur / The Road to Happiness | Maurice Labro & Giorgio Simonelli (1953)
Saluti e baci (Love and Kisses) is a Franco-Italian comedy-drama film directed by Maurice Labro and Giorgio Simonelli and released...
Jingle Bell / Jazz | Duke Ellington / Dave Brubeck / Herbie Hancock / Miles Davis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny7FPTcZqLo Duke Ellington - Jingle Bells Pony Poindexter - Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer Dave Brubeck Quartet - Santa Claus Is...
Jackson Pollock and Jazz | Fats Waller / Lester Young / Louis Armstrong / Jimmy Yancey / Count Basie / Ornette Coleman
Hans Namuth, Jackson Pollock Painting, 1950 Jackson Pollock: Number 8, 1949 Hans Namuth, Jackson Pollock Painting, 1950 Fats Waller -...
A jazz visual diary | Photographs by Herman Leonard (1948-1960)
The Metronome All Stars (Eddie Safranski, Billy Bauer, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Lennie Tristano) New York City, 1949 Metronome All-Stars - Overtime (1949) ....
There was swing | Jack Kerouac & Roy Eldridge
Jack Kerouac “...Then there was swing, and Roy Eldridge, vigorous and virile, blasting the horn for everything it had in...
Warning: Jazz — a Drug | E. Elliott Rawlins, M.D. , 1925
E. Elliott Rawlins, M.D., writing in the New York Amsterdam News, April 1, 1925: ...The form of music called jazz...